Corruption in the Media

Using a general model of corruption that explains and accounts
for corruption across different corporate and professional activities, the
paper will examine how certain practices in the media, especially in areas
where journalism, advertising and public relations regularly intersect and
converge, can be construed as instances of corruption. By applying this
general model of corruption the paper will then offer a taxonomy of media
corruption by identifying most if not all the major types of media corruption.
It will be argued that such corruption is regular and systematic.